During this session, we'll explore three creation apps available with Adobe Spark. We'll divide our time evenly between Post, Pages, and Video. Available on iPads, Chromebooks, and completely free for teachers and students, Adobe Spark offers some of the best features of all creation apps out there. We'll also explore ways to app-smash with other tools like Google Sites, Flipgrid, and more! Come ready to create and learn how students can use these powerful tools.

Canvas is an amazing LMS that allows for so much creativity and usage in various different ways! However sometimes this can become overwhelming for a new teacher to the district or students or parents can sometimes get confused trying to navigate through different courses. Come join us in this session to learn new ways to build templates in Canvas that your school can use (or maybe even just a department.) Templates create a common layout that are custom to your teaching needs but make navigation simple for all users. Plus the great thing is, once the template is created, you can use it year after year and only make minor tweaks as needed! Weather you are a seasoned Canvas user or new to the game, this session will be a great one for you!

During the session/workshop attendees will be introduced to code.org, Tynker, Spheros, and Kano Harry Potter Wands. We will explore the Sphero edu resources and how to set up classes. This will allow for teachers to be able to assign tasks and also for students to submit their completed tasks to their teacher. After an overview of these there will be time for hands on exploration. If attendees have an iPad then downloading the Kano app and on all devices the Sphero Edu app before the session would be great. A laptop would be useful for exploring code.org and Tynker.

Continuing Our 1:1 Journey: what a year looks like from start to finish

In last year's session, "Our 1:1 Journey - what we learned and what we wish we'd learned earlier" we discussed our 5-year journey down winding roads of "what to do's" and "what not to do's". This year we will travel with you through what it looks like from start to finish in our 1:1 world. From preparations during the summer to recollections at the end of the year and processing the devices in between. It's a bumpy road full of "holy cows" to watch out for. Come prepared to listen and engage in an open forum of learning.

Project Lead The Way is committed to expanding access to high-quality computer science education and professional development across the country and in Indiana. Fewer than 40% of Indiana schools offer Computer Science to their students and in rural counties that number drops to 20%. In Indiana K-8 Computer Science standards will be tested on the new ILearn exam beginning this year, and all high schools will be required to offer at least one CS elective beginning in 2021. Let’s work on creating an aligned pathway for your students! Computer Science is no longer an industry, it is part of every industry.

So, you know Cybersecurity is important, so now what? This session presents a tactical, hands-on approach to cybersecurity. Learn about resources, practices, and freely available tools to better guard the cybersecurity of your staff, students, and their data. Learn how to perform a risk analysis and self audit. Get exposure to actual, useful, cybersecurity tools for penetration testing, vulnerability discovery, active threat prevention, and anomaly detection. Leave with an action plan for your school to take back to your stakeholders!

In this session, we'll dive into getting the most out of Google Forms and Sheets. First, we'll look at the built-in features like response validation in Forms and natural language queries in Sheets. Then we'll really get to data smashing with powerful Sheets functions like IMPORTRANGE, QUERY, & VLOOKUP. We'll finish with making your data work for you by taking advantage of Add-ons like formRanger and autoCrat. As a bonus, we'll take a peek at Google Data Studio as a way to make a beautiful, interactive presentation for your data.

As educators, we live in a world full of data, but making sense of it all can be a challenge. In this session, we'll look at how to use Google Data Studio to create an interactive data dashboard to make your data come to life. I'll provide a data set to work from but feel free to bring your own if you already have a project in mind. If you plan to use student data, please run the Data Studio terms of service (https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/7019158) by your powers that be to make sure they sign off on its use.

Are you ready to dive into best practices for lesson design in the digital age? In this session, we will see how to effectively use of Open Educational Resources (OER) to connect to curriculum, instruction and assessment. You will see how to be selective and intentional with “tradigital” (tradition and digital) tools, strategies, and resources for turning OER content into curriculum through best practices in digital lesson design.

Easy to Integrate Technology - Tools to Make Lessons More Creative and Engaging: Teacher Toolbox

With so many ways to implement technology into the classroom, it can be daunting to try and sort through it all. What resources are true “must-haves” for the everyday classroom? There are a number of programs, online resources, and digital tools that have proven to be mainstays for the teachers that implement them. Through a fun and engaging “Digital Breakout,” we will cover these game-changers and how to use them. Real examples of how these tools have already been implemented in the classroom will be shown. Attendees will then have the opportunity to create their own digital content specific to their curriculum. Ultimately, the goal of the session will be to walk away with new tools and new digital content to bring back to students.

In this session, attendees will learn how to move their course from "meh" to AMAZING! Engage students by creating inviting, easy to navigate courses. Also learn "tips" to make teaching easier through the use of tools such as recordings, modules, and Cloud Assignments.

Do you currently use Canvas by Instructure and feel that you have the basics down, but want to know how to enhance your courses? Then this is the class for you! Explore how to spice up your courses by organizing the content, adding special features like apps, embedding content, using Mastery Paths and much more! We will also cover some of the more advanced features that are available in Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes. So join us and find out how to take your Canvas course to the next level!

Esports is exploding across the world, and schools need to fully embrace esports to realize the benefits beyond the games. By understanding the concept of the "Scholar Gamer," esports can revolutionize schools in five unique ways. The games are simply the medium to a much greater educational experience for your students. In this session, learn more about the "Scholar Gamer" and the five unique ways esports can revolutionize your school's approach to engaging your students in their learning.

How do you implement FREE computer science curriculum with G Suite for Education tools? Come hear how a school utilizes Code.org's free secondary curriculum to pair with G Suite tools to create a blended learning environment, perfect for 1:1/eLearning Days or shared device setups. You will also learn how K12 teachers can access free training and materials, including updates on licensing and standards.

For those that are “new" to GSFE, or are considering it. Best practice for basics like tree structure, email, authentication. Glitches and problems encountered. A survey will be sent out to all registered attendees to better tailor the session to meet your needs.

Discussion about security, taking CBs off-campus, 3rd party apps, and general discussion on anything else. We'll also be looking at the new GSFE changes that Google has made this year. To make sure we meet as many of your needs as possible, we will be contacting all registered attendees to better tailor the session to meet your needs.

In this session, we will walk through the process of creating a Google Form. We'll look at ways to make sure you are collecting the data they need, be it for formative assessment or classroom productivity. Starting with the basics of questions types and settings, we'll look at how Forms take advantage of Google's AI, how to customize Forms with data validation and add-ons, and what you can do with your data once it's been collected.

What's all the buzz with containers? Just what is a container, anyway? This session gets geeky with containers! If you like to go deep, technical, and hands-on, then this session is for you. Learn important container concepts, how it differs from and compliments other technologies such as virtualization, and how to deploy containers! Some technologies that will be explored include Docker and LXC.

Your students are excited about esports, and you are ready to support their intrinsic passion for esports. But where do you begin? How do you harness the passions of your students into a plan that moves forward the mission, vision, values and goals of your school or district? Through almost 20 years experience in the field of education and esports, James will share his experience to take your ideas from a focus on gaming to developing a rich ecosystem that supports the larger ideals of the Scholar Gamer.

In this session, the IDOE will provide updates on status and timelines for the LINK initiative, an IDOE effort to leverage information technology to advance the vision and mission of the Indiana Department of Education.

The eSports landscape is exploding, and we don’t want you to get ganked or come out looking like a noob. Has keeping up with the trend left you Twitchy? Don’t get tilted, come in for a crash course and learn how your schools can be competitive in this new frontier.

Take a deeper look into the results of the 2019 Tech Plan data. Join leaders from the IDOE office of eLearning to hear the latest findings on purchases like cybersecurity and digital content. We’ll discuss how these results compare to previous years, as well as the implications for your district decision making.

Indiana basketball is legendary across the country! How did we grow basketball here? What if we created the same systems and opportunities into place for growing STEM? Could we become legendary in STEM? Let’s work on it together in this session.

Tech leaders manage multiple projects and processes over the course of each year, be it refreshing hardware, distributing and collecting devices, transitioning to a new student information system, or constructing a new school. Whether large or small, straightforward or complex, your projects and processes can easily get away from you without careful planning and review. Join this session to explore tools and techniques to define scope, collect and analyze data, determine causes for failure, and ensure success. Strategies pulled from Six Sigma and Project Management methodologies – Process Map, RACI Matrix, 5 Whys, Risk Register, Lessons Learned and more – will equip you to get on top of your big or small priorities. Learn how to manage your projects and processes before they manage you!

What is truly unique and exciting about Applied Digital Skills from Google is that it fosters innovation. The Applied Digital Skills curriculum emphasizes relevant life applications, rather than the tool being taught in the units. Real and tangible digital skills are woven throughout the lessons, but the overarching focus is on accomplishing a task or solving a problem that learners can relate to in their everyday lives.

Think Google Chrome is just another internet browser? Think again! Learn why I cannot live without Google Chrome and how extensions make my life easier! Think of all the time you are going to gain by using Chrome Extensions! Every click counts!

We are fortunate to have many grant opportunities within PLTW and within our state. Let’s work on writing an application that will get your school and district the funds you need to implement or expand opportunities for your students. This will be of value to you for ALL grant applications you are working on.

Cyber threats keeping you awake at night? Learn what it takes to keep your education network more safe and secure. Get vendor agnostic best practices and guidance from the leaders in the network security industry, and use that knowledge to better secure your systems and build a greater trust with your staff, students, and community. Get the latest information from the Indiana Cybersecurity Task Force and explore the wealth of information and resources available from CIS, NIST, MS-ISAC and other organizations.

Google continues to improve Google Slides as a powerful presentation tool for all users, but let's talk about some of the cool, innovative applications of Google Slides that AREN'T presentation based! We will also talk about how to add some serious "Design Shine" to your Slides and talk some tips and tricks to make best use of this powerful platform.

Welcome to Teach Like A Student HECC 2019! This session will be the most fun you can legally have at an educational technology conference! Our focus is on strategies to improve student engagement using technology. Be prepared to have fun, dance, and above all else, learn more about tools and tactics you can use tomorrow!

Are you worried about sustainability of your technology fleet? Do you know how much you spend in software and hardware each year? Do you know where your funding will come from? Tired of being told "no money"? I have been perfecting a budget and rotation cycle for the past 20 years. The way schools receive funding and the way we implement technology has greatly changed over the years. Come to this session to discuss why you should lay out a technology budget and rotation cycle to help keep your district on track financially.

No, this session isn't about the weather! This session explores the cloud, specifically IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service). If you are looking to move all or part of your datacenter to the Cloud or just gather information to make a more informed decision, this session is for you. Get hands-on with free-tier cloud services to begin your cloud journey!

Need to do a parent and/or teacher sign-up for conference times, class treats, PD time? Need to collect student lunch choice? Want to survey your students/teachers? Need a way for students to sign-in/out? Want to submit office referrals online? Need a system to keep track of IT tickets? Want to track student reading? Need to place an club order for shirts? Need data to progress monitor on an IEP goal? Want a quick way to get live data on student understanding? Need visually appealing ways to share data without doing anything with the data? Want to learn how to put data on a Google Map? I will show you how to do all that & more with Google Forms. Participants should have a Google account prior to attending this session.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

Are today’s students reflected in the instructional materials and books in our classrooms? The answer is most likely no. As PreK-12 school districts across the country are rethinking the role that instructional materials play in today’s learning environments, there is a unique opportunity to leverage Open Educational Resources (OER)—freely available educational materials that can be downloaded, edited, and shared—to be more inclusive and representative. Join this session to learn how to rethink instructional materials and leverage OER to create more inclusive curriculum.

All K-12 educators are invited to explore how to use Adobe creative tools to create digital stories using Adobe Spark. Learn how to apply digital storytelling skills and Spark into your curriculum. Teacher created curriculum resources will also be shared. Adobe Spark is a free tool that allows users to create eye-catching graphics, beautiful engaging web pages and compelling video stories in minutes. Adobe Spark is a free graphic design app available on iPad, Chromebook, and any web-enabled device. Please bring a computer or tablet, so you can participate during the hands-on portion of the session.

There are a ton of options out there for interactive displays; most of them are quite expensive. At MSD of Steuben County, we are pulling away from interactive televisions and boards and exploring options that will allow teachers to have the same great interactive options but for a fraction of the cost. In this session, we'll talk about how we are utilizing many of the same tools teachers already know, but using Chrome Remote Desktop and Google Cast for Education to get it all accomplished.

Picture books can be utilized within teaching a variety of ways, including STEM. In this session you will learn how to go beyond the book with Tech Enhanced Interactive Read Alouds and coordinating hyperdocs that will engage K-5 students in real world applications with student samples shared.

Need some fresh ideas for your K-6 Reading/Language Arts lessons? During this interactive, hands-on session, you’ll learn how to put a “techy twist” on some old favorites! For example, transform a diorama into an interactive green screen presentation, have students create their own stories using online book creators, or add a STEM challenge to a piece of fiction! You’ll leave with a range of practical ideas to implement into your classroom right away!

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

Every student in grades K-8 must be instructed in computer science. What concepts do these standards address? Is this the same as STEM? Project based learning? Just coding concepts? What staff do other corporations have to teach these concepts? How can we tell if our 4th and 6th grade students are ready for the assessment? What about the middle school course requirement 0488? What funding should be used for materials? These and other issues around the standards will be covered. Actual student reports that show the proficiency of students against the strands of the standards will be provided.

In this session, we will introduce Google Keep and discuss the many possible uses in the classroom/work setting. Participants will work with Google Keep in Google Docs and Slides. We will also look at the amazing features that can help you organize your life outside of school. Participants will be given time to complete challenges while learning/practicing with Google Keep. Participants will leave with a new organizational tool in their toolbox!

A growing number of districts are looking to OER—freely available educational materials that can be downloaded, edited, and shared—to rethink curriculum. Over the past three years while working with PreK-12 school districts across the country, five myths have surfaced around making this transition. Learn about these myths and how real educators have helped dispel them.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

You’ve heard about the importance amplifying student voice, but let’s talk about your literal voice as a teacher for a second. This session will discuss best practices and strategies for creating instructional materials that utilize your voice AND your face. If you are new to blended learning or want to take your digital creations to the next level, let’s talk about how to create digital instructional materials, specifically audio and video, with your personality in mind.

Technology can open doors for our students. However, much of the digital content we use in class is not accessible by all of our learners. It is our responsibility as educators to be proactive and inclusive in our design of digital lessons and materials. In this session, learn about the 9 aspects of accessibility you should consider as you choose, evaluate, and/or create digital materials for your students. Let’s embrace digital equity and ensure access for ALL learners! (All participants will leave with a free accessibility handbook.)

School districts have multiple systems in place that provide administrators with a plethora of information, but many schools are missing one very critical piece of the puzzle—actionable usage data. Significant investments have been made in new technologies, devices, and online applications, but it is very difficult to track the efficacy of those investments. Join this session to discover how districts can quickly and easily leverage data analytics tools to measure return on investment, assess instructional impact, and inform professional development and student data privacy practices.

Building a technology budget for short and long term planning. I will share how I develop and build a budget for technology in a mid sized school corporation. From managing annual renewals to forecasting how to sustain and build replacement cycles for all aspects of a school corporations technology.

Come join us as we go over the processes we use to help keep our 1:1 deployment running as smoothly as possible. During this session we will share the forms we use as well as go over how we handle things from device repair, billing for damages, keeping parents informed, our loaner program, as well as restriction options for students abusing the privilege. There will be time at the end to ask questions and share tips from those attending on how they handle certain things.

Your students may know their way around the latest iPhone technology, social media platforms, and gaming consoles, but are they truly digitally literate? Explore the pedagogy behind teaching students the WHY behind the HOW of tech, how to troubleshoot their own digital glitches and desires, and build a solid foundation of digital literacy skills useful in or out of the classroom. This session will explore a methodology of teaching digital literacy as well as a handful of super tools that effectively support a goal of creating digitally literate students.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

Do you want to still be reading ALL CAP TWEETS in the future? Didn’t think so. How do you teach digital-age learners to powerfully and critically create and consume information and ideas? Learn about tools and resources to craft savvy knowledge constructors and information curators in your schools.

Integrity is a Microsoft Academic-Authorized Partner with multiple Silver and Gold Competencies. We work extensively with Microsoft's Cloud Ennoblement Desk, and Tech Data's Cloud Practice Builder in order to service K-12 customers with the highest levels of proficiency. Join us for an introduction to the Microsoft K12 Education Transformation Framework. An effective, flexible platform for education transformation grounded by decades of research from academics, experts, and policy makers. Learn how to access these resources to gain valuable insights on how to implement the Education Transformation Framework in your school or district.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

You’ve heard the debate by now. Which is better: print or digital? Let’s end that debate today. There’s a place for both in the modern classroom. But how can we ensure that students are equipped to be savvy digital media consumers? In this session, let’s discuss teaching strategies for improving comprehension of digital media and share tips for creating effective digital content for the classroom.

Whether eLearning is new to you or old hat, it deserves a closer look. Come get started with eLearning days, or use this as an opportunity to evaluate your current process. Let’s talk about quick wins for eLearning that is interactive, accessible, and powerful. We hope our attendees will leave with a crystal clear vision for beginning or improved eLearning!

In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to use Hummingbird Duos to design, build and program a robot. We will walk through the Engineering Design Process and demonstrate how to integrate and apply coding with content area state standards. This will be a purposeful introduction which will include demonstrating, modeling, and inquiry based learning. Things that you will learn include, but are not limited to the following: the different components to the Hummingbird Kit; how to connect electronics to the Hummingbird Duo; begin or advance your coding skills with easy-to-follow tutorials; access to curriculum, assessment, and instructional tools you need to be successful.

In this session, participants will be shown how a 5th grade classroom utilizes blended learning approaches and practice setting up or fine tuning what you already may have started in the past. Flipgrid, the newest and growing student voice empowerment tool, will be shown and participants will catch #FlipgridFever seeing all the NEWEST updates and participate using, creating, and seeing options to share beyond their class! Afterward, participants will catch the #WakeletWave seeing how easy it is to curate digital content in one place with Wakelet! All of this will be shown in how to keep students connected using Canvas and how my daily practice of OneNote can connect traditional methods of hard copy notes with the digital age utilizing digital ink and more tools in OneNote.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

Student creation is perhaps the best form of assessment, allowing students to share their thinking and express themselves in a personal way. Often, student creation includes the use of existing resources and, therefore copyright should be considered. Explore the intersection of creation and copyright and discover what educators should know.

Join me for this session where I will discuss how we handle student devices over the summer break. I will go over how we transitioned from collecting every device every year to our current process that allows students in grades 5-11 to keep their laptops over the summer. We will talk about such things as what happens when students move out of the district over the summer and how we go about getting devices back, to how we process laptop returns at their end-of-life. I will also discuss how we handle the collection of our elementary iPads at the end of the year. When you leave this session you will feel more comfortable allowing your students to keep their devices over the summer, thereby allowing them to continue their learning beyond the school year. There will be plenty of time at the end for questions.

It would be awesome if we had funds and time to take our students on unlimited field trips around the world. Just think about the cultural experiences they would have! Luckily, we’ve got technology that can not only help with the number of field trips we can take, but more importantly, help immerse our students in different cultures and communities across the globe. Come learn how you and your students can build virtual tours and help foster a global mindset in your classroom. VR equipment not required, but bring your laptop and/or tablet to get hands-on with building virtual tours.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

In this session, we will explore how to find openly licensed materials using Creative Commons. After this session, you will feel more confident in finding images, videos, etc. to use in your classroom AND how to properly provide attributions without sabotaging quality. Let the Beastie Boys help walk us through the process so we can avoid that “Rhymin and Stealin”.

Are you worried about sustainability of your technology fleet? Do you know how much you spend in software and hardware each year? Do you know where your funding will come from? Tired of being told "no money"? I have been perfecting a budget and rotation cycle for the past 20 years. The way schools receive funding and the way we implement technology has greatly changed over the years. Come to this session to discuss why you should lay out a technology budget and rotation cycle to help keep your district on track financially.

Come join us as we go over the processes we use to help keep our 1:1 deployment running as smoothly as possible. During this session we will share the forms we use as well as go over how we handle things from device repair, billing for damages, keeping parents informed, our loaner program, as well as restriction options for students abusing the privilege. There will be time at the end to ask questions and share tips from those attending on how they handle certain things.

There are a ton of options out there for interactive displays; most of them are quite expensive. At MSD of Steuben County, we are pulling away from interactive televisions and boards and exploring options that will allow teachers to have the same great interactive options but for a fraction of the cost. In this session, we'll talk about how we are utilizing many of the same tools teachers already know, but using Chrome Remote Desktop and Google Cast for Education to get it all accomplished.

Participants in this session will learn how to effectively integrate Chromebooks in the primary classroom. Come away with a solid plan to help roll out professional development and support for those targeted teachers. Best practices of how to integrate this model into whole group, small group and station settings will be shared.

During this session, you will gain ideas on how to implement coding in your K-6 classroom, including lessons that do not even require technology! Hands-on opportunities will be given for you to explore various technology tools that give even the youngest students a chance to experience coding. In addition, you will get the chance to explore and practice using the plethora of coding resources available through the Code.org website. Finally, the global Hour of Code movement will be introduced and you will find out how to get your students involved!

All K-12 educators are invited to explore how to use Adobe creative tools to create digital stories using Adobe Spark. Learn how to apply digital storytelling skills and Spark into your curriculum. Teacher created curriculum resources will also be shared. Adobe Spark is a free tool that allows users to create eye-catching graphics, beautiful engaging web pages and compelling video stories in minutes. Adobe Spark is a free graphic design app available on iPad, Chromebook, and any web-enabled device. Please bring a computer or tablet, so you can participate during the hands-on portion of the session.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

What is blended learning? What does research say about the effective components needed for a blended learning environment? In this session, participants will learn the power in blending technology with target instructional approaches. The interactive solution in this presentation utilizes formative assessment through a universal screener with progress monitoring to determine specific needs of students, monitor their progress toward increased learning, make decisions about a student's instruction, and evaluate student achievement. Teachers leverage formative assessment to align instruction to learning goals and make deliberate decisions about next steps in learning. From developing to established readers, students grow with flexible educational resources that blend teacher-led lessons and computer-adaptive instruction.

Every student in grades K-8 must be instructed in computer science. What concepts do these standards cover? Is this the same as STEM? Project based learning? Just coding? What staff do other corporations have to teach these concepts? How can we know if our 4th and 6th grade students are ready for the assessment? What about the middle school course requirement 0488? These and other issues around these standards will be covered. Actual student reports that show the proficiency of students against the strands of the standards will be provided.

Real talk. Technology departments and teachers have been known to become disgruntled with one another. Good news. These frustrations can be resolved with a little TLC (and a lot of communication). Join us as we have a much-needed conversation focused on ideas and strategies to help improve relations by fostering mutual respect and understanding between both parties.

Many K-12 leaders are surprised to learn how many of their students are acting in ways that pose an immediate threat to themselves or others— and leaving evidence of this behavior in their online activity. Hear Gaggle’s Mike McInerney speak on the state of student safety in the 2018-19 school year. Learn more about key trends in student behavior, how early intervention saves lives, and how school districts can get the actionable intelligence that they need to prevent a tragic situation before it's too late.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

With the influx of new technologies, many school districts are turning to the cloud to host learning management systems, applications, and create secure, sustainable, and scalable virtualized environments. However, the opportunities afforded by the cloud don’t end there! Join this session to discover how you can effectively leverage cloud technologies to enhance and streamline communications, back up and store your data, and glean more insight into the efficacy of your technology investments.

With technology transforming at a record pace, strategic and flexible solutions are critical. Integrity's Tech-as-a-Service (TaaS) is a comprehensive, flexible solution that bundles hardware, software and services into a single subscription price. Integrity's newest offering combines unmatched, unique expertise and specialized services with operational and logistical strength. Join us for a program introduction, and learn how school corporations can scale up or down throughout the course of their subscription term - allowing schools to adjust to changing enrollments, staffing, and budget.

Come join this innovative session where we will look at what zSpace brings to a classroom and how VR/AR is helping close the gap between instruction and hands on learning. We will also see how VR/AR is being used in today's workforce and how schools can leverage this technology to engage students, spark interest, and raise scores.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

Are we inadvertently putting up barriers for students with our design choices? Technology isn’t necessarily supposed to make learning easier, but it definitely shouldn’t make it harder. Join us as we explore quick and easy ways to ensure all of our digital content works for all of our learners by meeting web accessibility guidelines. It might not be the most riveting topic, but making our digital content accessible and user friendly for all learners is a top priority.

“Who Answers their Phone Anymore?” - School Communication for the Modern World

Traditional mass notification tools are built on old phone-based technology, before smartphones were in the hands of nearly every parent. What’s more - legacy tools don’t address all school communication and engagement needs like Forms and Permission Slips, SignUps, Payments, and more - so teachers and coaches have turned to their own tools and parents suffer with the barrage. Sound familiar? On average, school corporations use 6-10 disparate communication tools, but how do they manage, monitor, or build a brand across them all? Come learn how to take your school communication to the next level.

This session will focus on the secrets to success that Middlebury Community Schools has had with implementing and running its 1:1 program the past 8 years. Topics will include: creating an organized distribution system, insurance vs. in-house protection plans, creating a ticket system, running the 1:1 room, and device collection. If you are wondering how to implement a 1:1 program, want tips on how to make your program work more efficiently, or are just curious to see how someone else does things, then this session is for you.

Instances of cyberbullying, violence, and suicide are on the rise, forcing schools to adapt. A school’s ability to detect alarming activity in social media posts, searches, and emails and proactively address the situation is an essential step in saving lives and teaching good digital citizenship. We will showcase and discuss tools which makes this possible.

In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to use Hummingbird Duos to design, build and program a robot. We will walk through the Engineering Design Process and demonstrate how to integrate and apply coding with content area state standards. This will be a purposeful introduction which will include demonstrating, modeling, and inquiry based learning. Things that you will learn include, but are not limited to the following: the different components to the Hummingbird Kit; how to connect electronics to the Hummingbird Duo; begin or advance your coding skills with easy-to-follow tutorials; access to curriculum, assessment, and instructional tools you need to be successful.

Building a technology budget for short and long term planning. I will share how I develop and build a budget for technology in a mid sized school corporation. From managing annual renewals to forecasting how to sustain and build replacement cycles for all aspects of a school corporations technology.

Picture books can be utilized within teaching a variety of ways, including STEM. In this session you will learn how to go beyond the book with Tech Enhanced Interactive Read Alouds and coordinating hyperdocs that will engage K-5 students in real world applications with student samples shared.

Need some fresh ideas for your K-6 Reading/Language Arts lessons? During this interactive, hands-on session, you’ll learn how to put a “techy twist” on some old favorites! For example, transform a diorama into an interactive green screen presentation, have students create their own stories using online book creators, or add a STEM challenge to a piece of fiction! You’ll leave with a range of practical ideas to implement into your classroom right away!

Have you maximized the power of Apple's iWork suite on your students' iPads? Numbers, Pages, and Keynote have so much more to offer than spreadsheets, documents, and boring presentations. Create beautiful eBooks with Pages, robust science journals in Numbers, animations in Keynote, and so much more. Capture the mind-blowing potential these workhorse apps can have in your classroom. You'll never look at these apps the same again. This session is suitable for all grade levels. An iPad is recommended for full participation.

Think Like an Instructional Designer: What Teachers Need to Know about eLearning Design

As teachers develop more online content for students, a new educator skillset becomes necessary: digital content design. Often the well-intentioned decisions we make when designing online content can have an unintended negative impact. Participants will learn some research-based strategies to think like an instructional designer and ultimately improve student outcomes while sharing their own tips and resources. Additionally, attendees will leave the session with a free eLearning design handbook.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

SIEMs, SEMs, SOCs and Security. The managed service provider becomes even more important as we outsource the ever-evolving process. What quality controls should be in place? What due diligence should we be performing? How does network monitoring plug into FERPA? These are just three of several questions we’ll discuss as we open the hood of the managed security service provider, in an attempt to help schools realize what happens when they outsource technology risk monitoring. One Hour Talk Deliverables include three free boilerplates: Technology Risk Monitoring Policy, Technology Risk Monitoring Plan, and Incident Response Plan.

Imagine having enough teachers in your class for every student to continually engage in high-quality learning experiences. Blended learning can make that a reality! Come learn strategies and tools for creating online learning experiences, managing learning groups, and preparing your students for success in order to maximize your instructional time.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

Whether eLearning is new to you or old hat, it deserves a closer look. Come get started with eLearning days, or use this as an opportunity to evaluate your current process. Let’s talk about quick wins for eLearning that is interactive, accessible, and powerful. We hope our attendees will leave with a crystal clear vision for beginning or improved eLearning!

Your students may know their way around the latest iPhone technology, social media platforms, and gaming consoles, but are they truly digitally literate? Explore the pedagogy behind teaching students the WHY behind the HOW of tech, how to troubleshoot their own digital glitches and desires, and build a solid foundation of digital literacy skills useful in or out of the classroom. This session will explore a methodology of teaching digital literacy as well as a handful of super tools that effectively support a goal of creating digitally literate students.

In this session, participants will be shown how a 5th grade classroom utilizes blended learning approaches and practice setting up or fine tuning what you already may have started in the past. Flipgrid, the newest and growing student voice empowerment tool, will be shown and participants will catch #FlipgridFever seeing all the NEWEST updates and participate using, creating, and seeing options to share beyond their class! Afterward, participants will catch the #WakeletWave seeing how easy it is to curate digital content in one place with Wakelet! All of this will be shown in how to keep students connected using Canvas and how my daily practice of OneNote can connect traditional methods of hard copy notes with the digital age utilizing digital ink and more tools in OneNote.

Think Like an Instructional Designer: What Teachers Need to Know about eLearning Design

As teachers develop more online content for students, a new educator skillset becomes necessary: digital content design. Often the well-intentioned decisions we make when designing online content can have an unintended negative impact. Participants will learn some research-based strategies to think like an instructional designer and ultimately improve student outcomes while sharing their own tips and resources. Additionally, attendees will leave the session with a free eLearning design handbook.

Almost every FileWave admin has used groups and smart groups to manage distribution workflows, but did you know you can also use the FileWave API to modify custom fields to further automate management of your computer clients? In this session, we'll take a look at doing exactly that!

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

Text messages. Emails. Kristen Bell’s Instagram story. We live in an always-connected, constantly notified world. The devices students have access to hold enormous potential for learning and creating; yet left unchecked and unaware students (and educators) can become unfocused and unproductive. Join us as we chat about the impact of distraction and “multi-tasking” on productivity for students (and ourselves). We will brainstorm potential solutions and share strategies for managing these distractions in our classrooms and in our individual lives.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

Millions of us visit various doctors, dentists, and other health professionals each year to ward off potential health threats and identify vulnerabilities. It’s critical that school districts adopt this same preventative health strategy regarding their networks. During this workshop, we will review steps districts can take to prevent and respond to cybersecurity incidents. Attendees will participate in an interactive exercise led by an expert from Sword & Shield and receive action steps they can take to enhance their district’s incidence response plan and other security policies. We’ll also conduct a deep-dive into penetration testing and discuss what types of tests are available, how they are performed against a network, what kind of information is gained from regular testing, and what to expect after a penetration test has concluded.

Have you ever photocopied a chapter from a book, copy and pasted an image into your presentation slide without checking copyright permissions, or shown a feature length movie to celebrate student achievement? If so, you may have infringed on copyright. Are you thinking, it’s ok I’m a teacher I’m covered under “Fair Use.” Well, there’s a little more to a Fair Use claim then working within a school district. This session will dive into copyright and provide resources to help you make sure your work and that of your student’s follows copyright law.

One of the biggest challenges teachers face is finding time to make or locate digital lesson materials. With just a few basic tools, you can quickly and easily create resources from scratch or remix high-quality work that is already out there. Learn best practices for digital lesson design and begin creating and curating your own resources during this session.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!

According to Common Sense Media, teens spend an average of nine hours a day online. This is an extraordinary amount of time especially when you consider that everything that you do online leaves behind some type of permanent presence. This session will cover some of the basic, but critical, responsibilities necessary to be a responsible digital citizen at any age. We will look at everything from media literacy and social media presence to safety and security.

During this session, you will gain ideas on how to implement coding in your K-6 classroom, including lessons that do not even require technology! Hands-on opportunities will be given for you to explore various technology tools that give even the youngest students a chance to experience coding. In addition, you will get the chance to explore and practice using the plethora of coding resources available through the Code.org website. Finally, the global Hour of Code movement will be introduced and you will find out how to get your students involved!

Have you maximized the power of Apple's iWork suite on your students' iPads? Numbers, Pages, and Keynote have so much more to offer than spreadsheets, documents, and boring presentations. Create beautiful eBooks with Pages, robust science journals in Numbers, animations in Keynote, and so much more. Capture the mind-blowing potential these workhorse apps can have in your classroom. You'll never look at these apps the same again. This session is suitable for all grade levels. An iPad is recommended for full participation.

Participants in this session will learn how to effectively integrate Chromebooks in the primary classroom. Come away with a solid plan to help roll out professional development and support for those targeted teachers. Best practices of how to integrate this model into whole group, small group and station settings will be shared.

This session is a great time to discuss any current problems or offer up timely solutions. There are typically technical, teacher and administration personnel in these sessions. A wide variety of topics and different viewpoints always seem to fulfill the time! Can't promise milk & cookies, but we can discuss how to clear cookies!!